Nebraska · Public charity
The Nebraska Medical Center
The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
- $447M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $349M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $218,984,060
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Nebraska Medical Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $349M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $316M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $315M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $274M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $255M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $237M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $217M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $179M | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNMC Physicians | $1,312,369,527 | 9 | 36% |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | $816,308,545 | 9 | n/a |
| Clarkson Regional Health Service Inc | $80,021,000 | 9 | 41% |
| Clarkson College | $70,864,524 | 9 | 39% |
| Building Healthy Futures | $5,724,051 | 3 | n/a |
| Omaha Discovery Trust | $1,800,000 | 2 | 5% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $886,250 | 8 | 0% |
| National Strategic Research Institute | $869,674 | 6 | 2% |
| Justice for Our Neighbors-Nebraska | $445,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities in Omaha Inc | $433,300 | 9 | 9% |
Show all 86 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Nebraska Medical Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation
How this is measured
About The Nebraska Medical Center
- How much does The Nebraska Medical Center give?
- The Nebraska Medical Center reported 33 itemized grants totaling $349,246,516, out of $446,861,583 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Nebraska Medical Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (77%), Education (22%), Membership Benefit (0%).
- Who are The Nebraska Medical Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: UNMC Physicians ($1.3B), Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska ($816M), Clarkson Regional Health Service Inc ($80M).
- Does The Nebraska Medical Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Nebraska Medical Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation.
- Where is The Nebraska Medical Center based?
- The Nebraska Medical Center is based in NE.
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